temple (n.)
And this I know: whether the one True Light
Kindle to Love, or Wrath-consume me quite,
One Flash of It within the Tavern caught
Better than in the Temple lost outright.
No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.
Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb
The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?
Chaste as the icicle
That's curdied by the frost from purest snow
And hangs on Dian's temple.
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence
The life o' the building!
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with 't.
Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.
Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.
